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of children under five years of age, and 132 occurred at ages
over forty-five. The fatal diseases were, Inflammation of the
Brain or Membranes, 25 deaths; Apoplexy, Softening of
Brain, Hemiplegia, Brain Paralysis, 114 deaths (89 in the
Town sub-district, 25 in Brompton); Insanity, General Paralysis
of the Insane, 11 (9 of them in the Town sub-district);
Epilepsy, 11; Convulsions, 44 (all under five, and 40 under
one year); Laryngismus Stridulus, 3; Disease of the Spinal
Cord, Paraplegia, Paralysis Agitans, 10; Other Diseases of
Nervous System, 30.
2. Diseases of the Organs of Special Sense (e.g.,
of Ear, Eye, Nose) are comprised in this Order. No death was
registered from these causes.
3. Circulatory System.—The deaths due to diseases
of the organs of circulation, heart and blood vessels, were 196,
against 173, 219, and 159, in the preceding three years respectively;
151 were registered in the Town sub-district, and 45 in
Brompton. To specified forms of disease, 70 deaths were
ascribed, viz., Pericarditis, 8 ; Acute Endocarditis, 3 ; Valvular
Diseases of the Heart, 59. Aneurism was the cause of
4 deaths, and Embolism, Thrombosis, of 8. Other Diseases of
the Heart caused 111 deaths, and Other Diseases of Blood
Vessels, 3 deaths.
4. Respiratory System.—The deaths from diseases of
the chest, Phthisis being excluded, were 574 (against 704, 671,
and 556, in the preceding three years respectively), and 20 9
per cent, of total deaths. Of these deaths 482 were registered
in the Town sub-district, and 92 in Brompton. The deaths
under five years of age were 195, or 340 per cent, (against
34.6, 31.3, and 46.2 per cent, in the preceding three years
respectively); and at fifty-five and upwards 266, or 46.3 per
cent, of the whole number, against 43.3, 42.5, and 36.0 per
cent, in the preceding three years respectively. The fatal
diseases were Laryngitis, 3 deaths; Croup (transferred in the